News archive from 8 May 2017

The Conservatives will once again promise to cut net migration to the "tens of thousands" in their election manifesto, the BBC understands.
On Sunday, Home Secretary Amber Rudd refused to say whether the pledge - which was in the 2010 and...

Let battle commence. With the local elections out of the way the initial skirmish they provided last week has given every party some useful intelligence to put into their general election planning.
As is usually the case once the votes have been...

Do the council elections prove Scotland has reached peak SNP? It’s just as easy to argue they produced peak Scottish Tory. Of course, that’s not the fashionable view.
Critics insist the SNP and the case for a second indyref faltered last week because...

The Tories will make a “Herculean effort” to bring the SNP “back down to size”, Ruth Davidson will vow today, as her resurgent party launches its Scottish general election campaign.
The Scottish Conservative leader will start her campaign in...

Strength of filthy-rich parasitic class continues to grow to all-time high
by Felicity Collier
THE number of billionaires in Britain has a hit a record level, the annual Sunday Times Rich List revealed yesterday.
A total of 134 billionaires appear in...

Labour leader says it’s all still to play for on June 8
LABOUR is pressing on with its campaign and “fighting to win” the general election after the “disappointing” local elections last week, Jeremy Corbyn said yesterday.
The Labour leader...

by Felicity Collier
TUBE workers at London Bridge station walked out last night in protest against the sacking of a member of staff and the disciplining of two others.
RMT members working for the London Underground (LU) staged the 24-hour strike from...

Communists warn workers not to trust Le Pen
FRENCH voters went to the polls yesterday to elect their next president, with most surveys pointing to a victory for neoliberal Emmanuel Macron over fascist Marine Le Pen.
Voting continued as the Morning...

Boko Haram gives up more kidnapped kids
EIGHTY-TWO of the schoolgirls kidnapped over three years ago by Islamist terror group Boko Haram were freed at the weekend in a prisoner swap.
The girls met Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday after...

TENS of thousands of Poles marched through Warsaw at the weekend in protest at the far-right government’s authoritarian policies.
Speakers at Saturday’s “march of freedom” slammed the Law and Justice Party administration’s attacks on the independent...

FAWNING wealth-worshippers in the right-wing press hailed a “bonanza” for Britain’s billionaires yesterday, as the Sunday Times published its annual Rich List.
The Conservative government can pat itself on the back for the revelation that our country...

The recently released film Their Finest reminds PETER FROST of a British writer far too little recognised
THE film Their Finest, now on general release and reviewed in the Morning Star on Friday April 21, paints an accurate picture of the British film...

Denying Labour a platform and controlling the political narrative has been an Establishment priority for years. JOHN ELLISON hopes the party can break through this
WE CAN all expect the 2017 general election to go down in history. But will it be a...

When you do the maths, you see that the state pension is neither too generous nor financially unaffordable, writes JAN SHORTT
WHO WOULD have thought that just a few weeks ago the future value of the state pension would become a major election issue?...

Newcastle pip Brighton to top spot with final-day drama from Jack Grealish
RAFA BENITEZ led Newcastle back into the Premier League as champions yesterday as they snatched the Championship title on a dramatic final day.
Goals from Ayoze Perez, Chancel...